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Dienstag, 30. August 2016

Dear
friends,

you'll
probably know the Spider Plant (Chlorophytum
comosum, also
known as airplane plant, St. Bernard's lily, spider ivy and/or ribbon
plant). Well I brought a plantlet home from work last year. This
plantlet grew happily on my secretary and produced lots of plantlets
ever since.

This
picture was taken last year

I'm
not the kind of person to throw away what nature offers me so
willingly, so I grew these plantlets too and err… well… we've got
quite a few Spider Plants now. Didn't stop me from gathering the
latest plantlets though…

A
peek view in our greenhouse

Thing
is, I didn't have any nice cachepots left for the latest newcomers,
so I thought I'd make some myself. Ta-Dah!

I'll
take these cachepots to the small crafts fair in Zingsheim on Sunday.
Even though it hadn't been worth while last year (only caught a
terrible cold there), I simply could not resist when the invitation
for this year's fair was dropped into my letterbox in February. Thus
I'll build up a stall there on Sunday.

P.S.1:
If by chance the cachepots would get sold, I've got some in reserve…

Mittwoch, 24. August 2016

Dear
friends,

does
anyone of you know why invitations to birthdayparties etc. often
arrive at such pretty short notice?

Well,
they seem to most of the time, which leaves me with a dilemma. You
probably know me by now that I'm not particularly happy with any
last-minute-gift bought in a hurry at the nearest supermarket. I
definitely prefer to make something special for each birthday child,
but mostly time's too short to crochet anything fancy.

Mid
July I made these bath poufs and suddenly I knew: gift boxes!

A
pouf takes but two hours to crochet, some face scrubbies not much
longer either, a cover for a candlelight jar not even an hour and if
you've got some time to waste: a doily. Buy a bar of scented soap and
a little basket (you could crochet one yourself if there's enough
time left). Put it all together and you've got a perfect gift box!

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English:My name is Marjan. I was born in Belgium in 1970. I moved to Germany in the early nineties for love's sake. Even though I got fairly disappointed some years later I never considered returning home as my children were born here in Germany. Fortunately I never did, since I never would have met my wonderful second husband. Read more here.